Example sentences of "it [be] [noun] that [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Well it 's history that Langer and Graham never made it , although Langer nearly chipped in at the end to force that playoff and give us a few tremble s .
2 I think it 's time that NME broke the office rules and had an article on the New York Dolls .
3 It is pronunciation that Dobson is interested in , and the EModE phonological standard is referred to very frequently in terms that suggest that such an entity had some real existence at that time .
4 It is time that Mr Lawson was targeted with all his friends .
5 It is time that Mr Major let British interest rates be fixed by the needs of our low-inflation recessionary economy , not by the Germans ' need to fight the rising inflation caused by their economic mismanagement .
6 The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position .
7 It was luck that Anne came out on top because she did n't want to go to medical school anyway .
8 So was it too much to believe that it was Kemp that Stratton had seen — about five o'clock , had n't he said ?
9 And , blessedly , it was facts that Morse now seemed to be concentrating on as , forgetting Aldrich for the moment , he browsed once again through the questionnaires .
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